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2014 Season - Game 81

Posted on June 3, 2014 at 09:10 PM.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE (RED SOX DYNASTY REPORT)

BRONX, NY - Another trip to the Bronx, another tough start for Jon Lester. Boston is 8-2 in their last 10 games and now holds a 3.5 game lead in the AL East with Tampa Bay right behind them. The Yankees are also on a hot streak, and they would like nothing more than knocking the Red Sox down a peg or two. Ivan Nova, who has been up and down for a few seasons now, would go up against the red hot Jon Lester.

The Red Sox would be the first to get on the board after a solid two inning of scoreless baseball from both Nova and Lester. Nova cracked first, putting Jackie Bradley on in the 3rd and giving up a 2R-HR to Xander Bogaerts with 2 outs. The Yankees wouldn't take a two run deficit laying down, and Jon Lester wasn't finding his spots. After two consecutive walks Brett Gardner hammered a 2RBI double to even the score, and then Carlos Beltran drove him in from second after Sizemore misplayed the ball in LF.

The two teams traded scoreless frames in the 4th, and then all hell broke loose for Nova. With Sizemore on 1st Xander Bogaerts hit a line drive double that would score Sizemore and even the score. A clearly rattled Nova then hung a change-up over the plate and Pedrioa crushed it over the fence in LF to make it 5-0. Nova would finish the inning, but he wouldn't come out for the 6th. Mike Napoli would pour it on with a 2RBI single in the 7th to cap off another 3R inning. Middlebrooks would finish off the game with a solo-HR in the 9th to cap a 10-3 victory that features some questionable fielding by the Yankees. Derek Jeter was the goat of this loss with two errors and a foul 0/4 3K performance at the plate.